Amy Cudden

Amy Cudden is a British actress, director and teacher. She is from Norfolk but later moved to Essex. She began attending local theatre school as a child and later joined the Maddermarket Theatre, where she performed in various plays. She studied at the Bretton Hall College of Education/ University of Leeds and later did a postgraduate degree at the Oxford School of Drama. Cudden received critical recognition for her work in the theatre productions of Shallow Slumber (2012), The Village Bike (2012), Tonight at 8.30 (2014) and After Miss Julie (2016). She also performed in various other productions, including Occupational Hazards (2017) and One Man, Two Guvnors (2019), as well as playing Anne Boleyn in The Last Days of Anne Boleyn at the Tower of London.

Cudden has appeared in television shows such as Casualty, Doctor Who, Doctors, Vera, Holby City, PhoneShop, Am I Being Unreasonable?, Mr Bates vs The Post Office, The Girlfriend Experience and The Midwich Cuckoos. She also appeared in various other productions and short films. Cudden had a role in the 2025 film Steve, and later that year, she began portraying Becky Swain on the soap opera Coronation Street for a four-month stint, which she also played in Corriedale. Additionally, Cudden has directed plays and also taught at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.